Flowers?

hey singapore!!!

Leonard and i decided to be independent and venture out on our own! wow so proud of ourselves! We went to F.C road, which is a road full of students, because it has a few colleges there. I went there also because i had to buy some pens. Silly me totally did not stock up before i came. The place we were suppose to go is VENUS trading. hmmm. it is a combination of popular and art friend? but the stuff are not cheap. The pen i bought cost near $3.the other one was only 20 cents. Kinda miss Art Friend. In india you really start to appreciate every single thing!

We had a tough time getting there. i think we took near 30 minutes just walking up and down. It was raining the whole day. heavy rain, light rain, drizzle~~ arg. But this part of Pune is a bit more developed than where we live. It has shops like nike, crocs, levi's, metro etc oh and subway!! but we didn't eat there. We ate at Barrista which is something like Starbucks but not exactly like it. there is also a Cafe coffee day here, another imitation. Other than snadwiches we decided to treat ourselves to drinks. i had a hot chocolate! nothing like what singapore has but it is better than nothing. It cost $2+, my sandwich cost $2+. BUT BUT they ALWAYS have vegetarian sandwiches! yum! eh it is not only tomatoes and lettuce k!! Indian's standard of vegetarian food is very high k~~ lol

I'm really upset about one thing.... I saw a few street kids begging for money. I felt really upset. I let my fear got better of me and did not give this poor skinny kid. He only asked for 1 rupee! I really shouldn't listen to everyone's warnings. I just got so worried and thought that all the beggars will swarm up if i gave this little kid. I saw him while i was eating in the cafe and no one gave him a single rupee. :( :( :(

On our way back in a 2 seater a little girl was trying to sell me flowers. (remember they have no doors?!) I don't know what is wrong with me!!!??? Why can't i just buy it from her?!!?!?! The rickshaw will drive off anyway... nothing could have happen to me.... I felt like an evil person all the way back.... i promise i will try my best to give these kids if i ever see them again. i shall goggle tonight to see if anything terrible happened to people who gave money to these kids.

I'm really not giving to feel better, but it's just that if the little amount i give them could land them a meal, isn't it worth it?

P.S. I saw a dead cat on the street!!! so sad! anw there are ALOT of stray dogs around. they remind me of kington! Kington! You don't know how lucky you are! It always make me sad to see these poor animals around.

P.P.S A big family of pigs live near us! they are always rolling around in the mud and eating rubbish. 

It's raining now! yikes!

hey everybody!!! i know all of you are really worried abt me and so am i. i'm worried abt myself! Anw when we first arrive here we got a shock!! lol totally shocking! The chennai airport was already shocking eh it is 180 degree of difference from our sg airport. And i really learnt to appreciate everything in sg now.

First of all our "flat", hmmm nothing accept for 2 mattress. hopefully i can post up the photo. After much argument and tears with the company we got a fridge~~(for wat?!) and a super wobbly table. but no chairs yet. though they did promise some plastic chairs and gas stove by monday. view here.

#2 no electricity when it rains and it is monsoon season here! so you get the idea how often it is cut off right?? eh almost everyday. So don't have hope that i'll blog more often. oh and the water supply get cut off once in a while too. so we just bought this giant pail (a size that can drown kington! lol) to store water. It has a lid too because weird things will fall in.

#3 Now traveling... well you really need to be quite brave. The only cheap way is by a "6 seater" which is a doorless auto rickshaw kinda thing which suppose to seat 6 people comfortably with the driver at the front. BUT this in india~~ yea so there is no such thing as a "6 seater" minimum 10 people NOT counting the driver. and we reached a PEAK yesterday with 12 people +1 the driver. you got to realise that these "6 seater" things are really old and cranky (not your lovely taxis) I cannot describe how much i love the SBS bus and our dearest MRT!!! Forgot to add that there is almost no traffic light here where we stay! or anywhere near us. NO traffic lights so it we have to be brave, step out on the really crazy and honking traffic. They are crazy! the traffic!! it is like honk honk honk forever for no reason. A person with singapore driving license  will not survive here. after a week we are semi pro at crossing this crazy roads

#4 food....They are not really healthy in terms of the things they eat. Indians love sweet and fattening stuff. They eat chapati most of the time instead of rice. But there is still rice. at least lunch is provided for us at the office. They love spices here, they have spices everywhere! in everything! one good thing is pune has 70% vegetarians so i'm vegetarian diet is maintaing well:) But it's so difficult to get fresh vegetable served and just veggie! in no curry form! I really don't get why people thing good food is oily fatty and flavourful. It is like that almost everywhere! the "good" version of chinese food, malay food, indian and even western food are always like that. hai i don't get it. The only time i got salad was at a potluck at my colleague's house yesterday.

#5 work and my colleagues are nice. Can't describe much about my work because it is confidential. Just know that i learnt a lot and they are giving me things that i lkie and i can do. I'm becoming a more efficient designer too:) My head's name is Freeda, she is such s sweet person:) She is the one who invited us to her house these few days when her hubby was away. We slept over at her place twice and the potluck we had yesterday was at her place. She is really helpful and sweet. Another one is Roochna who brought us to watch Inception the movie at their cinema. the theater is REALLY BIG and the movie was really great! Our colleagues are really helpful and nice, they really made everything much more tolerable. 

i know people kept asking me to go stay over with a colleague or something but you really got to understand that they are really not as well off as us and their living condition is still nothing compare to average singaporeans. The supposedly well off once, their houses are still nothing compared to singapore. And don't tell us to borrow stuff and all that because they themselves have nothing much too. You really got to be here to understand the whole situation. And stop assuming that we can do this or that. Because it is not this way in india.

SO far i learn a lot. both physically and mentally. I think overall thing trip will really teach me a lot and i'm not about to give up despite everyone trying to get me to go back. It's not easy but hey not everyone gets a chance like this. And i really should learn to look on the bright side of life. And learn to appreciate the good(s) instead of the bad(s).

I'll try to be online after 12 at SG time everyday. So do go facebook or add me on skype to talk to me. MSN is not working v well so see ya all on facebook and skype. But don't forget, we do get electricity cut-off here~~

love all Singaporens:)

Best Girls

My favorite group of girls:)
Really enjoyed my last cell with them before i head off for india next sat morning (9am flight)
Oi! Yiting where are you!!?? my last cell lei. never give me face~~ We had so much fun and all we lack is you! I really feel so blessed to be in this group. With such a sweet group of funny girls. All of us went through so much together and changed so much as a cell. We are so different yet we can have so much fun together. I'm gonna miss you guys so much when i'm in India. I always look forward to cell time every saturday. 12 weekends without you girls is too much to bear!! Please skype me during cell and sunday service! I don't want to miss out from any of the Princess action!

I will pray for you girls in India~~~
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Counting down to india~~

I think because of caroline, i am more efficient. She is so hardworking. With her i cannot drag my AdCam work. God is really amazing. He really is.

On tues, the ad we had been working on got turned down and questioned by lecturers. It's really not totally our fault because the lecturer sounded as if he was ok with the idea and we could proceed. But our efforts were wasted and he left us totally at a lost because wed was the presentation. We were REALLY upset. I randomly thought of an idea and we chiong all night at caroline's house.

God's amazing interference + 0 sleep= Good presentation

Seriously we could have screw up with the idea, the 3 lecturers could have said anything that sounded logical. But God made them saw the good side of our idea. It is amazing. It is a miracle.

2 more weeks to india. Vaccination done. Insurance done. I just need to finish buying the stuff on my list. Going to india made my appreciate the little things in life:)

counting down.... LESS THAN 2 WEEKS!!!

Erm 2 weeks form now i'll be in INDIA!!!!  Cannot believe it.... I really wish that these 2 weeks all i need to do is pack my stuff and meet people that i'll miss when i'm in India. But sadly the coming 2 weeks i'm busy rushing AdCam:( WHY!!!!! But i must learn to embrace my work. If not i'll have a tough time getting it done. Our idea requires so much illustration:( I should not fear it!!!! I should use God's love to love my work and all the business!

oh I'm hungry! Hungry for Revival! 

And hungry for food only found in singapore (bean curd, mr bean, ah boling peanut soup, my mum's fired dumpling and honey green tea, my mum's cooking!!!!, tofu, mum's milo oreo, vegetarian niang tofu.....) those of you who are so free now, buy me some singapore food~~~